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• Seasoned life of man preserved and stored up in books. -- John Milton (1608-1674) -- Areopagitica
• The purpose of life is a life of purpose.
• As good almost kill a man as kill a good book: who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image
  but he who destroys a good book kills reason itself. -- John Milton (1608-1674) -- Areopagitica...
• Life exists for no known purpose.
• And on the Tree of Life, The middle tree and highest there that grew, Sat like a cormorant.
  -- John Milton (1608-1674) -- Paradise Lost, Book iv, Line 194...
• To know That which before us lies in daily life Is the prime wisdom.
  -- John Milton (1608-1674) -- Paradise Lost, Book viii, Line 192...
• The first and almost the only Book deserving of universal attention is the Bible.
  -- John Quincy Adams All the good from the Saviour of the world is communicated through this Book...
• Warmed up cabbage wears out the poor master's life. -- Juvenal